Carbonating apparatus



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FRAME FOR SUPPORTING GARB'ONATINGAIPARATUS; No. 244,275. Patented July 12,1881.

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FRAME FOR SUPPORTING CARBONATING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,275, dated July 12, 1881. Application filed April 13, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MATTHEWS, of

'New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Frame for Supporting Oarbonating Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new construction of frame-work for supporting the fountains or other sizes, nor could it be adjusted for supporting on one continuous structure more than a given number of fountains for which that particular structure had been prepared. Therefore if a frame had been fitted to hold three fountains,and it was desired to have four fountains in close proximity to each other, a second frame for the fourth fountain was required, which occupied more than necessary floorspace, and was, moreover, expensive and cumbersome.

My invention is designed to produce an adjustable frame in which the several blocks that support the fountain can be set at suitable distances from each other to receive and hold larger or smaller fountains. The entire apparatus is of such a character that it can be readily transformed to hold a suitable number of fountains at any suitable distance apart. A stronger, lighter structure is thus produced, and one that will not needlessly take up floorspace, and that will not interfere with the free access to the lower part of the apparatus.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved frame, showing it as supporting four soda-water fountains. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, partly in cross-section, of one of the supporting portions of my improved frame. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in longitudinal section, of said frame. Figs. 4 and 5 are top views of portions of said frame, and Fig. 6 is an end view or face view of one of the caps applied thereto.

The frame proper consists of a series of tubular columns, A A, which are ranged in pairs, as shown in Fig. 1, each pair being united by a tubular cross-piece, B, at or near the top. The structure formed by every pair of columns A A and the uniting cross-piece B, as indicated in Fig. 2, constitutes one of the supporting parts of the frame. The several supporting parts are united by tubular guides O G, that pass through eyes or sockets to a, which are formed near the upper portion of each intermediate support, A A B. On these tubes the intermediate supports can be adjusted at suitable distances apart. Each column A carries at its upper portion and above each tube 0 an extension, d, with concave face 0, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3. The end supports have only one such extension, d, at each column-to wit, at the inner side thereof; but the intermediate supports, A A B, have each two extensions, d, at each post, one projecting to the right, the other to the left, as indicated in Fig. 3. These extensions d constitute the supporting-brackets for the fountains that rest upon them, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, and as is also clearly shown in Fig. 1. The several columns are preferably hollow, as shown, or may be semi-cylindrical, and thus consume less metal in their make-up than solid columns would,and they are lighter to transport and to handle in consequence. The cross-pieces are also either tubular or semi-tubular. The ends of the tubular girders 0 receive suitable caps, f, as shown in Figs. 3

and 6, which can be screwed upon them, and

which may reach to the first set of supporting-frames, A A B, as indicated in Fig. 3, to regulate thereby the position of such end supporting frame on the tubes 0 0.

It is perfectly clear that my improved frame can bereadily adjusted to bring the several supporting parts A A B at proper distances from each other and to adapt them to support larger or smaller fountains. In fact the frame can be adjusted to support, large and small fountains at the same time-a faculty which was not possessed by any of the previous structures. By adding a piece of tubing, 0, or by makingthe tubingO in sections, that are joined where they enter the sockets that are provided for their reception in the supports A A B, the length of the entire frame-work can be increased or diminished at pleasure. When to be transported or handled or put aside, the framing can be taken apart and stored or packed in a small space.

1 claim- 1. In a frame or stand for soda-water or other carbonating apparatus, the combination of supporting-frames A A 13, having sockets a a, with thelongitudinalsupporting-girdersG,thatpass through these sockets and on which the frames A A B are adjustable, substantially as described.

2. The columns A A, united by the crosspiece B and provided with concave-faced extensions or brackets d, substantially as specified.

. 3. Ina frameforsupportingsoda-water fountains and the like, the supporting-stands A A B, fitted adjustabl y upon tubular girders G and provided with extension-brackets 11, so that there is one pair of extension-brackets between every pair of columns above each girder, substantially as specified.

4. The combination of the end caps, f, with the hollow girder O and adjustable supporting-frames A A B,having brackets 11, substan- 30 tially as herein shown and described.

JOHN MATTHEWS.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK E. Vossnacx, J As. DIXON. 

